What's new in Cloud FinOps?
Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois get together to discuss what's new in the world of cloud when it comes to FinOps. There are two monthly episodes, one where we'll discuss the top stories we've found from this month and a second episode where we bring in a friend of the show to talk to us about a topic of their choosing.
What's new in Cloud FinOps?
WNiCF - September 2024 - News
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In this episode, Frank and SteveO celebrate four years of their podcast while discussing the latest advancements in Cloud FinOps, including Amazon's new EC2 Graviton instances, Azure's confidential VMs, and cost management innovations. They explore dynamic scaling in cloud services, AWS Healthomics, and the importance of sustainability in computing. The conversation also touches on SMS innovations, SageMaker customization, application rationalization, and automated complaint rate recommendations in SES, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of the current cloud landscape.
- The podcast celebrates its four-year anniversary, highlighting its growth and listener engagement.
- everything else is noise :D
September - Frank intro
Instances/Compute
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-ec2-x8g-instances
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-ec2-c8g-m8g-instances/
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/GA-confidential-VMs-with-NVIDIA-H100-Tensor-Core-GPUs
Data/DBs
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/aws-cost-management-purchase-recommendations-amazon-dynamodb-reserved-capacity
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Cosmos-DB-dynamic-scaling
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Smaller-Enterprise-tier-cache-instance-for-Azure-Cache-for-Redis
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/google-cloud-database-news-for-september-2024#:~:text=Cloud%20SQL%20has%20three%20new%20features%20that%20further%20improve%20the%20industry%2Dleading%20availability%20experience%20on%20Cloud%20SQL%20Enterprise%20Plus%20for%20PostgreSQL%20and%20MySQL%3A
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/cut-costs-and-boost-efficiency-with-dataflows-new-source-reads
Storage
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Live-Resize-for-Azure-Premium-SSD-v2-and-Ultra-Disks
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/hyperdisk-storage-pools-optimizes-gke-block-storage
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
- View and manage unexpected costs with Anomaly Detection (in preview)
- You can now view and manage cost spikes that deviate from your historical spend patterns using the Anomalies dashboard (preview). Each anomaly comes with a detailed root cause analysis that identifies the top services, regions, and SKUs that contributed to the spike.
- Learn more about using Anomaly Detection to manage costs.
Commitment
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/V5-reservations-for-Azure-Database
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/ANF-Reserved-Capacity
Pricing
Savings
FinOps (General)
Sustainability
Misc/Silly
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-sns-delivers-sms-text-messages-aws-end-user-messaging/
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-sagemaker-model-deployment-software-driver-versions/
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-to-modernize-with-the-new-application-rationalization-dashboard
- [FUN] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-ses-automated-complaint-rate-recommendations/
